At 04:17 +0300 2001/02/15, Alexander Cherepanov wrote: >So (my) conclusion is: since there are cases which cannot be parsed by a >human, markup is not only for stupid computers but is unavoidable in >principle and is essential when you express such delicate things as >thoughts in such a coarse form as a written text. If a sentence cannot be parsed by a human, it is of little use in the human world I gather. Also, if some kind of information is deemed necessary to humans for the parsing of something, one could clearly not expect a computer to parse it without it. It's like a + b could not be computed explicitly to a number if what a and b should be is not somehow indicated. -- The letters themselves are a kind of markup. Did you expect to avoid them as well? :-) Hans Aberg